Welcome to Year 5

Homework for Year 5 is reading at least 3 times per week (ideally a little every night) and in addition, they may receive handwriting sheets to practise their handwriting joins.  There will also be some maths activities set to help them with their learning in school and we encourage the children to practise their times tables by competing on Mathletics and Times Tables Rock Stars. Weekly spellings are provided for children each week with the expectation of short, daily practise happening at home.

Please click below to find out what your child is learning about each term.

Year 5 Topic Webs

• Year 5 Autumn Topic Web
• Year 5 Spring Topic Web
• Year 5 Summer Topic Web

Dates for the diary

PE - Wednesday and Thursday (swimming)

Homework - Mathletics, TTRs, Reading Plus (Summer) and Edshed (spellings)

Spellings - Given out on a Monday. Spelling Test Fridays

Reading

At Collingwood, we encourage children to read at least 3 times per week (ideally a little every night). We use a reading race incentive to encourage children to read at home. This involves children reading at home and once they reach 40 reads, they earn a golden coin that they can spend at our reading book vending machine. Smaller prizes are awarded every 10 reads too!

Teachers carefully pick every child's reading books depending on their reading level. Books will be changed at teachers' discretion once they feel the child is confident and ready to move on. Children that are confident and capable readers in upper KS2 are given free choice over their reading books and exchange them once complete.

Useful websites

You can use the following websites to support your child's learning at home. 

• Ed Shed/Spelling Shed
• Times Table Rock Stars TTRS
• Mathletics Fun Maths activities!
• Discovery Education
• Reading Plus (Summer Term)
• Collingwood Primary School - X (Twitter) Please click the link to find our whole school Twitter account.